Editing The Pen Addict 393/transcript (section)

== Platinum Pens ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.

'''Adina Hurley:''' Um, so I guess what I learned is that I enjoy having the variety to move through it according to my mood or the content, what I'm using it for.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We should talk about the platinum.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I kind of can't move on from that. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We need to talk about this. There's bad platinum luck in this household.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is, this is the, this is the pink, I don't know the official name for this one, but it's like the pink finish.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The 3776.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Finish alluloid cherry blossom.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Thank you.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's really pretty.

'''Adina Hurley:''' It's really pretty. Exactly.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It remains pretty. Or was. No, no, it remains pretty. It's not that bad.

'''Adina Hurley:''' It's not beyond recognition, but it's still a pretty pen. Um, so what happened there was that when I was in the phase of using my platinum, uh, this autumn, I, I always wanted to have it at hand to pick it up, to use it for notes and whatever. So when I would put it back into my pen case, I wouldn't necessarily secure it or zip up the pen case. So one day when I moved the pen case from one surface to another, the pen just rolled out and it rolled out off the chair and onto the floor.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Um, it was uncapped though, right?

'''Adina Hurley:''' No, it was capped. It was capped. I wasn't using it. It just fell out of the pen case and also out of the same pen case. For some reason, I think I was using it at the time as well. It was also Myke's sailor. The orange jet. The orange jet. Oh, yeah. That escaped unscathed, which is very important because Myke already doesn't let me touch his pens, too many of his pens.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, no, no, that's not true. The situation here with the orange jet was, I didn't know you'd taken it.

'''Adina Hurley:''' Oh, yeah, yeah. That's what it was. But to be fair.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That's even better.

'''Adina Hurley:''' So, in my defense, Myke was trying to get me onto the sailors, so he presented me with his sailor collection and that was the only one I liked how to write. And I think he didn't realize that I just borrowed it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Stole it.

'''Adina Hurley:''' Stole it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean, is it really, like, it's still under the same roof. Like, is it really theft?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think as soon as it's put into another pen case and zipped up, the theft has occurred. We'll see.

'''Adina Hurley:''' But luckily, it's not immediately broken. It's not immediately broken, I would say. But I feel that the nib isn't aligned as well and ink doesn't flow through.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, something's gone wrong. Yeah. It's not. Yeah. The lucky situation that we are in is, one, it was capped. So, there wasn't, like, severe damage done to the nib. But something has become misaligned. And so, it will take its way to a pen show some point in 2020 and just be tuned and fixed. Yeah. That's easily repairable. Exactly. I could fix that. It's just not right anymore. Yeah. That's the problem.

'''Adina Hurley:''' And it used to write so beautifully. I was really in love with that one in that phase and I was really heartbroken when I finished

'''Myke Hurley:''' We had to have a conversation that day about, okay, so now we've learned a little bit about pen transportation safety.

'''Adina Hurley:''' Always secure it. Respect the pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Respect the pen.

'''Adina Hurley:''' Yeah. I think this was always a problem for me going into more expensive pens because I would have a very, like, a budget collection, let's say, when I would go into work. And at work, my pen just, I don't know, depending on your presenting and gesturing, my pen would fly out of my hand or I would throw it in the bag next to my keys and it would get all scratched up. And my pens were always in a state. And I have really been trying with these ones that are a bit more expensive to look after them, keep them in a pen case. But still, there's a lot more to learn.